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Problem Running BT3 on Laptop

Hi, I am having a problem with using BT3 on my laptop. I have an ati x1100 radeon express graphics card which I am assuming is causing the problem.

I have downloaded the cd image and checked the md5, the disk worked fine on my desktop but not on the laptop. After doing some reading I then downloaded the usb version (and checked the md5), I got the ati.lzm kernel module, put it in the modules dir and made an iso with the make_iso.bat and burned it to disk.

Again the disk worked fine on my desktop but not on the laptop. All I get on the laptop when I try to boot is the following;

loading/boot/vmlinuz............

loading/boot/initrd.gz...............

Ready
_

And then just a black screen.

This happens no matter which option I choose. My question is can this be worked around? And if so, how? I am only experiencing this problem on my laptop and both disks work fine on all the desktops PCs I've tried it on in the office.

Im basically having the same problem on my ATI Radeon 200G Xpress (or something similar to that)

and it only goes to a black screen after installation. When I used the liveUSB, starting it in vesa 1024x768 @ 75 Hz; it worked fine. but then when i tried the same action after installation, i got a black screen, like i did when i used any other option than what i previously mentioned.

same here

I've got sick with the same problem 3 months ago ...the cd doesn't work quite well with my laptop (it has ATI radeon xpress 1100 inbuit gpu),BUT IT WORKED FINE WITH THE BT3 USB VERSION!.i guess it has something to do with the extra packags in the usb version.

Hi, I am having a problem with using BT3 on my laptop. I have an ati x1100 radeon express graphics card which I am assuming is causing the problem.

I have downloaded the cd image and checked the md5, the disk worked fine on my desktop but not on the laptop. After doing some reading I then downloaded the usb version (and checked the md5), I got the ati.lzm kernel module, put it in the modules dir and made an iso with the make_iso.bat and burned it to disk.

Again the disk worked fine on my desktop but not on the laptop. All I get on the laptop when I try to boot is the following;

loading/boot/vmlinuz............

loading/boot/initrd.gz...............

Ready
_

And then just a black screen.

This happens no matter which option I choose. My question is can this be worked around? And if so, how? I am only experiencing this problem on my laptop and both disks work fine on all the desktops PCs I've tried it on in the office.

Any help would be very much appreciated, thank you.

tzu

Same problem here with an IBM Thinkpad R51 (centrino), except that it hang on "loading/boot/initrd.gz..............." (i get no black screen)